Joel Stein interviews Tim Ferriss
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- Http://thejoelstein.com
- Movie Idiocracy
- How to start in self improvement – ID YOUR) your pain points by doing 80/20 analysis. Write down 20% of your issues that cause 80% of the problems in your life.
- Subtract habits & ideas, instead of just adding new ones.
- How do you say no to people? “I’m taking a meeting vacation” “taking an X vacation.”
- Introducing people – ask permission from people before introducing them.
- “what gets measured gets managed” create a goal that you can quantify. Assess baseline, and measure against it.
- Find a way to score your performance so that you can work on improving it.
- Does self improvement lead to selfishness? TF – references Ben Franklin and his 13 virtues.
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- Helping others effectively can often start with helping yourself first.
- Address the roots of problems. Cutting coffee consumption starts with understanding why you’re drinking so much of it in the first place.
- Email is a tool that has been misappropriated for inefficient tasks. Can be replaced with project mgmt software. Email is not a follow up system.
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- Slack is an alternative in business
- Screenflow to teach a skill or repetitive tasks.
- If you have repetitive tasks, what system can you put in place that will only need you to create once and never again.
- Apply 80/20 rule to finding the good in your life as well.
- How many unimportant factors are affecting your output? Can you cut them out? Can you automate them? Of what’s left, what can you delegate?
- People are drowning in useless tools because they don’t have goals.